Serge
Just 116 Polish men carry Serge, so meeting one sticks in the memory. A Latin name at root, from a word meaning "servant".
Serge Pronunciation
Serge is pronounced SER-ge (/ˈsɛrgɛ/).
What Serge means
Where Serge comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Serge is the French form of a Roman name. It descends from Sergius, the family name of an old Roman clan, the gens Sergia, and there sits its Latin origin. Name books gloss the name as "servant," in Polish sługa, though that reading attached itself long after the Sergii carried it. The Romans wore Sergius as a surname, with no duty of service implied.
The name gained saints. Sergius and Bacchus were Roman soldiers honoured as early Christian martyrs, and their cult moved the name across Europe. In France the ending fell away and it settled as Serge, short and level.
On a Polish urząd form Serge asks for no accent and no second glance. Its single syllable lands in one beat. Whatever the old clan meant by it, Serge now carries the sense of sługa, the servant.
How many people are named Serge
1 in 184019 men in Poland is named Serge. 116 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3148 among male names.
Serge as a middle name
Serge is a first name for 116 men in Poland and a middle name for another 59, a 66/34 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 962nd, between Reyes (59) and Trung (59).
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#960 Prokop59
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#961 Reyes59
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#962 Serge59
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#963 Trung59
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#964 Ahmet58